Drawing Idea vs Milanote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drawing Idea
This app provides creative prompts for drawing, combining nouns and adjectives to spark inspiration. It helps overcome creative blocks by offering a vast library of unique ideas, making it easy to start drawing quickly.
- Inspirational noun and adjective combinations
- Hundreds of thousands of unique ideas
- Simple two-button interface
- Helps overcome creative anxiety
- iPhone X friendly design
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Drawing Idea inspires you with fun to draw nouns and adjectives. Never again will you sit down to draw only to be overcome with creative anxiety. Ideas generated by Drawing Idea are selected to be highly inspirational. You have complete control over the nouns and their adjectives since they are generated independently. Stop agonizing over what to draw. Let Drawing Idea help you become more creative by inspiring you with hundreds of thousands of ideas. Drawing Idea is incredibly simple to use with only two large buttons to press, you will be up and creating in no time. iPhone X Friendly!
Milanote
Organize your creative projects with this visual workspace. Combine notes, images, videos, and sketches to capture inspiration and see the big picture. Collaborate with your team or keep ideas private, with content synced instantly across all devices.
- Combine notes, images, videos, and sketches
- Organize projects visually
- Collaborate with teams
- Save content from any app
- Instant syncing across devices
- Sketching with Apple Pencil
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Milanote is the tool for organizing your creative projects. Capture ideas & notes on mobile, then organize them visually on Milanote for desktop. SAVE INSPIRATION & IDEAS Easily combine notes, images, videos, sketches, and more. Capture anything that fuels your creativity. ORGANIZE PROJECTS VISUALLY Bring your ideas, tasks, and references together in one place—so you can see the big picture and the details. COLLABORATE WITH YOUR TEAM Milanote boards can be a private place to think, or a shared workspace for collaboration—you control who sees what. SAVE CONTENT FROM ANY APP Clip websites, images, and videos from your browser, photos app, or anywhere else—right into Milanote with a tap. INSTANT SYNCING ACROSS ALL DEVICES Anything you save to Milanote is instantly synced to all your devices. The Milanote iPhone & iPad apps also let you… - Create, view and edit all of your boards - Upload photos, video & files - Sketch with Apple pencil - Get notifications for comments and content updates Privacy policy: https://milanote.com/legal/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://milanote.com/legal/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Milanote at Free against Drawing Idea's $0.99. Milanote also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 36 months) and ratings volume (4K vs 2). Drawing Idea's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Milanote is free to download; Drawing Idea costs $0.99 up front. Milanote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.49 per month. Drawing Idea asks for nothing beyond the download.
Drawing Idea holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Milanote has 4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Drawing Idea's written reviews are positive against 60% of Milanote's.
Drawing Idea ships an update every 36 months, Milanote every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drawing Idea | Milanote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 59.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 36 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zany Gadgets | Milanote |
Customer experience
Drawing Idea
Milanote
Bugs and requests
Drawing Idea
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Milanote
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when trying to open certain boards
- Issues with deleting or rearranging notes
- Image uploads not working consistently
Requested features
5 requests- Add iPad app with full desktop functionality
- Improve mobile app experience and parity with desktop
- Increase free version storage limit
- Implement offline mode and better file management
- Add more customization options for boards and notes
In-app purchases
Drawing Idea
No in-app purchases
Milanote
- Professional Monthly$12.491 Month
- Professional Annual$119.991 Year
